On Jan 26, 2014, at 1:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Go you one better -- What is reality? > > My definition: a photograph is art and/or documentary or somewhere in > between. (Thinking of the Photojournalism thread.) >
And according to some of the art museum curators interviewed for the Times article, it doesn’t necessarily involve a camera or lens. An example would be a photographic image made by arranging objects on a scanner, then printing the resulting digital file. But no one is really trying to provide a firm answer, just raising the question. Paul > Physical objects are easy. A chair is a chair. A photo of a chair is a > photo of a chair. > > But what is a war/a protest march/an airplane crash/a massive flood/a > political meeting? And what are photographs of those events? > > It all becomes subjective rather quickly. > > Marnie aka Doe ;-) I've never been able to come up with a good definition > for reality, myself. > > In a message dated 1/26/2014 9:06:21 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > On 26 Jan 2014, at 16:34, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 26 Jan 2014, at 16:26, "J.C. O'Connell" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Same goes for "what is a movie"? >> >> That one's easy. It's a sequence of photographs replayed at 14fps > > Ahem, 24fps. Slo-mo is frowned upon. > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
